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Bultmann's view of Western history is characterized, above all, by his judgment that it has been shaped by the two great traditions stemming from Graeco-Roman antiquity, on the one hand, and Christianity, on the other. Christianity, in turn, presupposes and further develops – in a "raditalizedradicalized" form – the Old Testament-Jewish tradition. The "radicalization" here consists in Christianity's continuing to assume with the Old Testament-Jewish tradition, over against the other tradition stemming from Greece and Rome, that history constitutes a sphere of life distinct from nature, but also insisting that the history that is decisive is not the history of Israel and of the other nations, but the history that each and every individual person experiences (GV, 3: 102).

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